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The city took a sharp turn for the worse under the hip hop Mayor and his family. Dave Bing and Robert Bobb are doing what they can to restore dignity to both the city and the school system which is ripe with corruption. If they do not succeed then it will fall in the next ten years.

Bing is challenging the Unions and Bobb is challenging the School Board.

Living in the suburbs I hope they are successful but I am not holding my breath.

As one that was born in Detroit and lived there until I was 20, it was forced school busing that did the city in..Not just white flight, but the black middle class moved out also. It started going down in the 60's and never stopped going down...Coleman Young was the first black mayor and he was a hate whitey mayor...He once told the criminals in Detroit to practice there profession north of 8 mile road...(that was the edge of Detroits boundaries.) Rob those white people...He was a beaut. I don't think there has been a worse black mayor in the whole country than him...Even Dinkins of New York was not as bad...Dinkins was just dumb, Coleman was hateful and really didn't even care about his own people..

Detroit is all poor black and white, lost business taxes, lost middle class taxes and only have welfare now without a tax base....

They do have the casino's going for them, but tough times hit casinos also...The casino's are situated within blocks of the expressways so you don't have to drive into the city too deep to get to them...

Been to the one in Greektown, its still a pretty good neighbor, don't like the MGM.